By Dave Byrne
New Era Correspondent
Sometimes, it’s not how you start, but how you finish.
That was the lesson learned by Mount Joy Blue and the Strasburg-Willow Street White Sox in Friday night’s New Era Tournament Junior-Midget quarterfinals.
After overcoming an early 3-2 deficit, Mount Joy Blue scored …
By Jeffrey Reinhart
New Era Sports Writer
Sure it was Friday the 13th, but nothing goofy happened on the second night of the New Era Midget-Midget Tournament at Kunkel Field in Mount Joy.
Just some solid pitching, some clutch hitting and, in Hempfield Black’s case, a lot of base …
By Dave Byrne
New Era Correspondent
It was a classic end to a classic game.
St. Leo centerfielder Travis Jankowski tracked down Joe Good’s deep fly ball to right center, leaped to catch the ball while crashing, hard, into the fence and still had the presence of mind to …
By Dave Byrne
New Era Correspondent
There was a chill in the air Monday night, but it did little to cool the smoking-hot bats of Manheim Township Black and Mount Joy Blue.
Those Junior-Midget hit machines advanced to tonight’s championship game of the New Era Midget Baseball Tournament.
In …
By Dave Byrne
New Era Correspondent
Monday night’s New Era Tournament midget-midget semifinal doubleheader was a study in contrasts.
Hempfield Black (32-5-1) scored early and often, dropping hits all over Kunkle Field in a 12-1 victory over Rheems Gray.
Earlier, Mount Joy Blue (29-7) waited until it was almost …
By Dave Byrne
LNP Correspondent
His Manheim Township Black teammates call Matt Turman, not surprisingly, the Terminator.
Turman terminated St. Leo’s Cinderella story Monday night, driving in the winning run to give MT Black a 6-5 victory and the Midget championship of the 62nd LNP Tournament.
Turman’s seventh-inning, bases-loaded, …
By Dave Byrne
New Era Correspondent
To mix a sports metaphor, watching Manheim Township Black subdue Mount Joy Blue Tuesday night was a lot like watching Mike Tyson box Sugar Ray Leonard.
If indeed the disparately-sized pugilists had ever met.
Yes, Sugar Ray could, and would, land a punch …
By Dave Byrne
New Era Correspondent
Hard to believe.
With all the top-shelf talent and all the great teams privileged to wear the black tee-shirts of Hempfield Youth Baseball’s No. 1 team, the Hempfield Black has never won the New Era Tournament’s midget-midget title.
Until now.
Shaun Corso singled …
By Dave Bryne
New Era Correspondent
Defending New Era Tournament Midget champion Manheim Township is the top seed of this year’s New Era Midget division tournament, and must be considered the favorite.
However, uneasy lies the crown on the head of the Lanco School League king.
Four games — …
By Dave Bryne
New Era Correspondent
Over the last five years, two programs have dominated the New Era Tournament’s Junior-Midget division.
Mountville won its first NET J-M title in 2004, and came back with a second in 2006.
Those titles interrupted a string by Manheim Township, which took the …
